It reads like something written yesterday. "Development or progress, so called, is destroying much of the habitat of all our wildlife at an alarming rate," reads the column that appeared in a local newspaper. "(T)he decrease in numbers of many of our most interesting members of the bird world is a sad thing to contemplate." ...more

February 27, 2009

In response to "Bring it on" concerning global warming, I offer the following facts: Spikes in cold temperatures are caused by movement of the jet stream causing it to carry arctic air southward. Any satellite photo will clearly reveal that the polar ice caps are retreating at an alarming rate. ...more

January 21, 2009

Let's pretend abortions had not been legalized in 1973. Pretend it is 1991 and 18 years after Row v. Wade. Assume 1 million babies had been allowed to live and they are now 18 and entering the work place. I know many will still be in school but the following are conservative estimates. Do your own math using your estimates. Let's assume they begin work at an average of $12,000. FICA taxes are 15 percent including their employers share. Say the next year another million had been spared execution and begin work and this continues through year 2008. Since government does nothing well (Thomas Jefferson), all the FICA taxes earned nothing. Since I am an optimist I also consider over this 17-year period that wages and FICA taxes go up on average of 5 percent a year. By the end of 2008 the Social Security Trust Fund will have collected 2.6 trillion more dollars. ...more

November 15, 2008

Less than two months into the job in the oilfields of West Texas, Brandon Garrett was sliced in half by a motorized spool of steel cable as he and co-workers struggled to get a drilling rig up and running. ...more

September 11, 2008

School staff members and families of students the principal said made a pact to get pregnant and have babies together have no information to back the claim, the mayor of Gloucester said Sunday. ...more

June 23, 2008

John F. Kennedy spoke these powerful words of wisdom that are enshrined in my home, "We have the power to make this the best generation in the history of mankind, or to make it the last." The United States of America now stands on the precipice of its most perilous predicament since the Great Depression. There are new dangers and numerous frightening parallels in contemporary America with those of the late 1920s. Unemployment is increasing at an alarming rate. The stock market is growing weaker. Banks and lending institutions are struggling to survive. The unhealthy speculation in the oil market by huge pension funds (and others) is similar to the more generalized speculation euphoria of the 1920s, which led to such a calamitous scenario. The dollar is weak against most of the major currencies of world. The cost of a protracted and unnecessary war in Iraq has directly resulted in an unconscionably huge national debt –– a debt of such obscene size that it will place an economic noose around the necks of American children and grandchildren. The unwillingness of our national leaders to aggressively pursue the development of alternative energy sources to replace the rapidly depleting supply of oil throughout the world places us further behind in our quest to become energy efficient and independent. (No, there is not enough oil in untapped oil fields in Alaska to supply our needs for 200 years. Anyone who truly believes such nonsense, in an environment of worldwide gas guzzling demand, needs to a revisit high school science class and college Economics 101.) ...more

June 12, 2008

Summer break is here, that magical 11 weeks when America's children run free all day. ...more

June 4, 2008

Summer break is here, that magical 11 weeks when America's children run free all day. ...more

June 4, 2008

The Weather Channel and news headlines tell us daily that the incidence of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and typhoons are increasing around the world. The average temperature on the earth is rising, and the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. ...more

May 27, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill today that will require insurers to cover costly therapies for thousands of autistic children in Florida. ...more

May 20, 2008